...Never too Late I am sitting in Iraq November of 2011 after spending 8 long years which included two tours of combat with the 3rd Infantry Division / 2nd Brigade of Fort Stewart, GA and 6 years with Kellogg Brown and Root a US Contracting Company thinking: what shall I do next? I thought: it’s never too late to return to school and start a new career. I already have one retirement and I am young enough to start another. I contacted the Veterans Affairs, filled out the necessary paper work and my approval was granted. I said to myself, “This Tour Is OVER!!!” I had already started packing when suddenly I received an unsuspected notification that my wife of 15 years was medevac’d to Savannah, GA, with severe chest pain. At that very moment, my mind was in a state of emergency. I had to get home. Education was far from my mind, and prayer was in order. I realized this was going to be a long flight home. Arriving and running through the Dubai Airport as I have done many times before was a nightmare because it was Ramadan and there were long exiting passport lines. Still, I had to remain calm so that I could get to my seat without feeling challenged by the diverse cultures surrounding me. Finally in my seat, I made a phone call to my oldest daughter to see how my wife was doing and to speak to the doctor or nurse if they were available, but they were still in surgery. This flight was 16 hours long and I realized that worrying would do no one good so I eased my mind; and begin to...
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...I’m not a movie person. I can never seem to keep a movie on until the end. That’s why I always make it a point to keep them interesting no matter what genre and last October 9’s movie didn’t disappoint. We watched an indie film by Joey De Guzman titled Tumbang Preso. The title seemed really familiar to me so because I was curious, I looked it up. Tumbang Preso was actually a child’s play, no wonder why it was so familiar. I used to play it at my grandma’s place back in Leyte when I was younger too. I actually thought it meant the fall of a prison cell since tumbang means fall and preso was jail. Lo and behold, it meant both. I was impressed with what Mr. De Guzman had going on. So tumbang preso has always been played in one way for kids. A player called an IT, is assigned to guard a can. The rest of the players with their “pamatos” or what they use to hit the can, line up behind a line drawn on the ground. Once settled, the game starts and each kid gets a chance to make the can fall with his or her pamatos. Once the can falls, the owner must retrieve the pamato that made the can fall immediately before he or she is caught. If he is caught, he becomes IT. If the can is hit and falls outside the circle but still stands, the IT has the right to tag the one responsible for the pamato once he or she leaves behind the line. The can may be kicked or knocked down under when it is outside the circle. If the player is not able to retrieve his pamato, the others can save him...
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...The Beginning of My Start: It’s Never Too Late for College As a youth I have always wanted to attend college. My family did not encourage going to college and I wanted to be different. After graduating from high school my plans to go to college were delayed. I became a parent at the age of 19 and my life began a new journey. I was still determine to go to college and continue my education. After becoming a mother my plans for going to college was put on the bottom of my list. It was always in my heart because it was something that I wanted to accomplish. I started working for a company where I was promoted several times and my plan to continue my education began to fade away. I became so busy with my family, my job, and life obstacles until it was taken off the list. I tried very hard not think about it and it began to bother me because of my position in the work place. I had no degree and that’s important in the corporate world. After years of going back and forth here I am. I made the decision to continue my education at Strayer University to achieve a personal goal, to become more qualified in the job market, and take advantage of the online study options. For a start, earning my college degree has always been a personal goal. See I am the youngest of six siblings. None of my siblings graduated from high school and never had the thought of going to college. My family always thought that trying to earn a college degree was a waste of time. I felt different and...
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...THE BLESSING OF PARENTS I remember the time when I used to be young and naïve. I took everything in life for granted, particularly the immeasurable blessing of having parents. During the entire time that I was with my parents, I used to be ignorant and resentful. My parents raised me, they nourished me, they educated me, and they tended to each and every one of my wishes. Yet I took their love and care for granted. I could never see the value of what they were doing for me. My parents never let any of my needs go unfulfilled. Still, I always demanded more and more of them. My father worked his shoes off to be able to provide for me while my mother sacrificed everything from her time to her energy for raising me. She taught me, cleaned after me, cared for me, and helped me strive for success in life. But alas, I was young, I was naïve. I never recognized what they would do for me. Whenever they could not fulfill my wishes on time, I would feel discontent with life. Whenever they could not tend to any one of my silly needs, I would be angry and upset with them. Whenever they forbid me from doing something, I would argue with them, not realizing that it was for my own good that they always forbade me. Today, I sit here in my house, my own house, thinking of how stupid and child-like I used to be. Through the efforts of my parents, I’ve become what you would say a ‘success’ in life. I have a stable job, my own family, my own car, my own house; but is this everything that matters...
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...All the way up to my sophomore year of high school, I have never had a real job, legally at least. Sure I have mowed the occasional lawn here and there in the summer for $10 but never an official job. However, at the very beginning of my junior year, I got hired at Foot Locker in the Mall of America. The job, the hours, the people that were around me who were there to help me succeed, but the part that was the most challenging was to get adjusted to the fact that I was getting home at 11 pm or even midnight some nights. There was also an adjustment period for my mom to. She was not too keen on the idea of me walking down Franklin at 11 pm. Finally, she decided to let my walk home from the train station instead of staying up and driving my so late at night. Even people outside of my family were just getting used to me getting a job and not being able to go wherever we wanted right after school. Since it was my first job, there were a lot of thing that I have realized along the way....
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...and there are some that are bad. I would not change any of them because they are the reason that I am who I am today. They are also the reasons that I decided to get back in school. The reasons are to make a better life for myself and my loved ones; to set an example that it is never too late to go back to school, and to meet new types of people. I decided to go back to school to make a better life for myself and my loved ones. To get a decent paying job now days, you must have some form of higher education. I have done some shady things in my past and now I am trying to do it the right way for my loved ones. Without my help, my loved ones would struggle to make ends meet and I do not want them to struggle. This way they do not struggle as bad and once I get my degree they will not struggle at all. Another reason I decided to go back to school is to set an example that it is never too late to go back to school. The younger generations think that once you reach a certain age that it is too late to do anything productive with your life. They are asking me why I went back to school and I tell them to better myself. I am proving to them and setting an example at the same time that it is never too late. I am proud to show them that if I can do it that they can do it also. The last reason I decided to go back to school is to meet new types of people. Like I said before I have done some shady things along with that you deal with shady people. I need to meet people that are not...
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...I believe in life lessons. Life lessons are something i believe, because no matter what you do you learn something. Also they help us understand what this world is all about.life lessons will help you through out your whole life time. Life’s too short don’t worry about what happened in your past. You can’t change what has already been done. Taking risk is easier than what most people may put it out as. When taking risk you will learn what you like and what you don’t like don’t waist your time being scared. Try to just live before it’s too late. Living life before it’s too late means to never be scared of what people may think about you. Living by yolo is plan out there. You only live once so do you and say whatever to the world. We are who...
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...Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby by some guy, the American Dream is depicted as something that can be either achieved or neglected by several characters of different age and personality. Through the novel readers can learn how hard it is to obtain this dream because at any given moment, individuals can be faced with obstacles and barriers. Despite the great amount of wealth that he inherited, Jay Gatsby never truly achieves his American Dream because his love for Daisy is never rekindled after he returns from war since Daisy is never able to fully let go of Tom and his money. First and foremost, Daisy’s love for Gatsby is never rekindled after he comes back from war. Jay Gatsby says that he embraced the war and it gave him a new life...
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...Honey why you calling me so late? It’s kinda hard to talk right now. Honey why are you crying? Is everything okay? I gotta whisper ’cause I can’t be too loud Well, my girl’s in the next room Sometimes I wish she was you I guess we never really moved on It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name It sounds so sweet Coming from the lips of an angel Hearing those words it makes me weak And I never wanna say goodbye But girl you make it hard to be faithful With the lips of an angel It’s funny that you’re calling me tonight And, yes, I’ve dreamt of you too And does he know you’re talking to me Will it start a fight No I don’t think she has a clue Well my girl’s in the next room Sometimes I wish she was you I guess we never really moved on It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name It sounds so sweet Coming from the lips of an angel Hearing those words it makes me weak And I never wanna say goodbye But girl you make it hard to be faithful With the lips of an angel It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name It sounds so sweet Coming from the lips of an angel Hearing those words it makes me weak And I never wanna say goodbye But girl you make it hard to be faithful With the lips of an angel And I never wanna say goodbye But girl you make it hard to be faithful With the lips of an angel Honey why you calling me so late Lips of an angel by...
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...Lily Bryden Kessler English II 23 May 2024 The Tragic King of Antigone Aristotle has a theory about a Tragic Hero, describing them as a character who is inherently good, but because of a serious mistake in judgment loses those they love, and usually their own life too. They have three major qualities: hamartia, peripeteia, and anagnosis. Pride, reversal of circumstances, and the recognition of the character’s flaw, usually too late to fix. In the play Antigone, King Creon displays all of these qualities, making him a tragic hero. In the play Antigone, pride is a major theme, being the reason that Polyneices isn’t buried, and the reason the conflict begins. One of the major characters in the play, King Creon, is an example of this extreme hamartia, or pride....
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...just using her boyfriend. Another theme of these two songs are love. Close your eyes and make believe this is where you want to be Forgetting all the memories, try to forget love cause love's forgotten me Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late pretty soon you won't remember a thing And I'll be distant, the stars reminiscing Your heart's been wasted on me You've never been so used as I'm using you, abusing you My little decoy Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through I'm using you, my little decoy My little decoy Live your life inside a dream Time is changing everything Forgetting all the memories And I'm forced into you just cause you're into me Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late When I'm gone you won't remember a thing But I can't stay and you know I won't wait I was gone from the very first day You've never been so used as I'm using you, abusing you My little decoy Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through I'm using you, my little decoy Oh, oh. I'm not sorry at all (not sorry at all, not sorry. no.) I won't be sorry at all (not sorry at all, not sorry. no.) I'd do it over again Don't look so blue, my little decoy You should've seen right through, my little decoy You've never been so used, my little decoy And so I'm using you, my little...
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...family barely had money and they sent him away to be a child soldier. After hearing this I read articles about child soldiers. I came across two articles “Armed & Underaged” by Jeffrey Gettleman and “The Charge: Genocide” by Lydia Polgreen.I can tell justice will never be done for anyone in the late 1900’s through the early 2000’s. I know this because there was the killing of certain ethnic groups....
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...though it is the old story once more: The mother-in-law who fights against a possible son-in-law because she hates the truth that her daughter is a grown up woman who might soon leave her parents. In all this mess the father-in-law sits back in his chair saying nothing. What are his feelings, his thoughts? Usually he does not say anything because he does not want more trouble but what does he actually think? That is what this story is about. I would like to answer ......... 3. vælg denne form for indledning Being young is about a lot of things, mostly it is the age where you have the opportunities to fulfil your dreams - and have the courage to do it. A lot of people do not realize this until it is too late, Ray Drower is one of them. He had so many dreams but he never realized any of them and when his teen-age daughter meets a young man, Andy, Who lives his life exactly the way he wants it, Ray has a lot of regrets. In what follows I shall characterize Ray Drower and also look at Andy, his ways of behaving, and why Ray likes him. 4. In my class we have been given the short story “A Dash for freedom” and now I am to answer two questions out of four. It was a hard decision for me to take, ut I have made a choice. In the following I would like to write about question b. about Andy and what Ray thinks of him and question c. where I have to explain and comment on Eleanor’s reaction to Penny and Andy’s relationship....
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...Epiphany at Death and the Road to Salvation In Everyman and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the protagonists are faced with their judgment day and presented with an account of their lives. Everyman is a man wealthy materialistically, while Faustus is wealthy in arts such as logic, medicine, law, and divinity. Everyman represents the men in society who are fixed in their material lives and lose sight of Christ. He befriends men who abandon him while on a pilgrimage to Christ, learning that what he once valued, his wealth, is useless to him when he has to account for his lack of good deeds. Faustus unlimited intelligence, yet he is dissatisfied with his gift; he would prefer experiment with black magic. Faustus gives his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to perform black magic, but he is ultimately damned to hell because of his decision and failure to recognize his fault. Faustus and Everyman fail to recognize Christ and their afterlife is left at stake. On the road to salvation, death serves as a groundbreaking event in the life of mortal men. Throughout their quest, Everyman and Faustus struggle to prove themselves worthy of greater afterlife through misusage of their mortal lives. Everyman is approached by the devil with a pilgrimage which he must partake, one where he will not come back alive. He seeks help in that those who befriend and abandon him during his lifetime such as: beauty, goods, and knowledge cannot help him on his journey. Good Deeds is the only...
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...feels for his/her child. If you can’t let go, of the person you love, they may never get back to you again, so sometimes you have to make some decisions in your life, but they can turn out to be your worst nightmare. The short story Ice Break is written by Astrid Blodgett and was published in 2012. The story is about a girl named Dawn, who is going on an ice fishing trip with her dad, her younger sister Janie and their uncle Rick. Dawn’s mother warned her father about going, because it is late in the season and the ice could break, but they are going anyway. The relationship between her mother and father is not the best, and that is why her mother doesn’t want to come, and says she have some work to do. When they get to the frozen lake, they are looking for Rick and suddenly the ice breaks under them. The father tries to save Dawn first by forcing her out of the car window, but she won’t let him go, so he squeezes her fingers till she let go. Afterwards he tries to help Janie, but it is too late and they both drowns in the car. The end of the story is about their funeral, and is very tragic. Dawn is the middle sister in a sibling crowd of three. She is a regular girl. She pays Janie to go ice fishing with her and their dad, because she doesn’t want to be alone with him. “I didn’t want to be alone with Dad. He was always grouchier when it was just him and me. He was scary when he got mad. And he never knew what to talk about with me so it was uncomfortable and we both ended...
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